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See also [[Doomed Supermarket Display]].
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== [[Advertising
* The 21st Century insurance company has a commercial with a mass of shopping carts being dropped onto two cars from overhead. The object is to illustrate how both cars get the same damage and repairs, but the 21st Century insurance owner pays less.
* A British anti-drinking PSA had an interviewer trying to persuade pasers-by to do sober things they might do when drunk. One of the suggestions was to climb into a shopping trolley and have a mate shove it into a wall as hard as possible.
== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Ben
== [[
* Jason beats an old man to death with a shopping cart during the supermarket massacre in ''[[Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* In the opening scene of ''[[Jackass
* There's a [[Jackie Chan]] movie (''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]''?) where a shopping cart plays a crucial role during a fight scene.
* ''[[Willy Wonka
* In ''[[Animal House]]'', after the infamous toga party, Larry leaves a drunk girl (whom he met at the supermarket) at her parents' front door in a shopping cart.
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'': two huge chains of shopping carts were used as a [[Battering Ram]].
* [[
* In ''Satan's Little Helper'', the main character gets the serial killer he is obliviously helping out to push him around in a shopping cart, and run random people down.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Johnny and The Bomb]]'': Johnny and Kirsty escape some [[The Men in Black|Men In Black]] by riding a bag-lady's shopping cart down a steep hill.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book [[
== [[Live
* ''[[Married...
* In the ''[[CSI:
* Done on ''Bit Com'' (a short, live action comedy show that runs as filler between programs on ABC3 in Australia) where the discovery of a shopping cart in the parking lot causes the two main characters to completely abandon their plans in favor of playing with it.
* A ''[[Mad TV]]'' parody of ''[[
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', whenever the "series of escalating dares" leading to Gob's marriage to [[Amy Poehler]] is mentioned, you see a still of the pair racing in shopping carts. This is, of couse, played with in a later episode.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Rihanna]]'s music video for "We Found Love".
* Gavin DeGraw's music video for "In Love With a Girl".
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* In the first ''[[No More Heroes]]'' game, the assassin Speed Buster is an old lady with a shopping cart full of groceries ... which is actually a disguise for its function as a devastating [[Wave Motion Gun]].
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': one of the psychopaths uses a modified shopping cart as a weapon. Defeating him will give Frank West that shopping cart.
* ''[[
* ''Ultimate [[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'': Frank West uses a modified shopping cart as one of his hypers. It has [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]] mounted on it.
* There's a flash game called ''Shopping Cart Hero'' where you jump off a ramp in a shopping cart.
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** "Supermarket Mania" had Jon and Garfield go to a supermarket that had shopping carts with crooked wheels, causing them to veer into shelves.
** "Don't Move" had Odie riding down the sidewalk in a shopping cart.
* Near the end of the ''[[
* On ''[[The Simpsons (
* The Ladybugs in ''[[
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